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2011
I just got a link to an article here from my great mortgage broker and really enjoyed the articles about shadow inventory, the increasing distressed sales, rent increases, etc. One of the other items addressed here in other articles is about the mortgage broker compensation changes which are awf...
04/08/2011
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If you scroll to about the 13 minute mark, you come to the interview with prominent economist, Joseph Stiglitz. He talks a bit about the mortgage deduction, cutbacks in social programs, tax breaks for the upper income levels, etc. My hope is that NAR and members will think about some of these ...
04/07/2011
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Today was a good day. I finally got short sale approval on the sale of a beautiful vacant lot. This was a BofA Loan being serviced by Greentree. One thing I noticed is that BofA does not respond as quickly through servicers as they do with Equator. We were also very fortunate in that they did...
04/07/2011
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Here is a link for locals about Bend being a good place to retire per KTVZ - our local news station. Publicity like this is good for our market. The source is a magazine called "Where to Retire" I really like it here for many of the reasons cited in this article. Have a nice day. http://www.kt...
04/05/2011
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Follow up on foreclosure recissions and probes - looks like it will be a lot longer this time for the turn around and that we will have a lot more distressed sales. Caught this article in RIS Media today and have posted the link below. I particularly was interested in the settlement amounts...
04/04/2011